Private Devices Key Benefits
Why choose private devices?
Private devices in the Sauce Labs Real Device Cloud offer dedicated, reliable testing environments, enabling organizations to achieve faster, secure, and scalable software delivery.
Dedicated to Your Organization
Get a dedicated pool of devices that are always available and only accessible to members of your organization.
Prioritized Security
Have the confidence that only the right teams have access to their data with streamlined device assignments
Team Management
Ensure better device allocation and access for teams who need them the most, by easily assigning private devices to specific teams
Better Customizations
Enable specific settings which are set on the devices all the time (Note: Subject to Agreement)
EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
Features Exclusive to Sauce Labs Private Devices
Here's what you can expect
Switch OS Versions
Provides control over the frequency of device OS upgrades and helps streamline your app testing.
Exchange Devices
Allows you the flexibility to request exchange of private devices (based on your contract agreement) that make the most sense for your evolving needs.
Android Talkback for Audio Accessibility
Supports streaming the audio during a Live Testing session to validate audio streams, notification sounds, and animations.
Apple Pay Support
Tests native apps, cross-browser payments, and card workflows on any type of iOS device. Also helps banks and credit card issuers validate adding cards to Apple Wallet.
Push Notifications
Enables you to test various push notification scenarios for iOS, to deliver a satisfactory mobile experience for your users.
Cellular Connectivity
Allows you to connect one or more of your private devices to a carrier network in order to test scenarios such as text messages, incoming calls, and data connectivity on the devices. (Note: separate add-on available for purchase.)
Preserve Passcode locks between sessions
Helps you test payment workflows that require passcode locks to be set on the devices and preserved between sessions.
Mobile Device Management (MDM)
MDM support on iOS real devices, allows you to install your internal application onto our private devices, enabling seamless policy enforcement and application management.
Enhanced Private Device Management
Provides greater control and flexibility over managing private devices, as org admins can now easily change a range of device configurations (Allowlist Apps, Allowlist Google/Apple Accounts, Allowlist System Apps, and more).
Private Device API Endpoints and Status
Enhances visibility and optimizes device allocation, with the ability to get real-time device status updates (device types, availability, and current activity) via UI and APIs.
App Allowlist
Enables testing of third-party or dependent apps from the App Store, Play Store, and TestFlight. It also ensures that predefined apps are not removed from your private devices during our device cleaning process.
Enterprise App Certificates
Enables testing workflows with additional security needs (such as Apple Pay), with the ability to easily install apps signed using enterprise certificates.
Switch OS Versions
Provides control over the frequency of device OS upgrades and helps streamline your app testing.
Exchange Devices
Allows you the flexibility to request exchange of private devices (based on your contract agreement) that make the most sense for your evolving needs.
The flexibility to combine public or private devices for web, hybrid, and native app testing.
While our private devices are ideal for customers who need 24x7 access to dedicated devices and prioritized security, our public devices are ideal to increase test coverage cost-effectively, with support for a wide range of thoroughly cleaned devices.
Here are some good use cases for choosing available public devices:
Optimize test coverage cost-effectively
Reproduce bugs on a selection of hundreds of iOS and Android devices
Upload and spot check apps on devices you don’t have access to
Share manual test sessions and devices across teams worldwide
Benefits across Sauce Labs private and public devices:
A unified platform for testing across Android and iOS devices
Support for both automated and manual mobile tests
Support for popular test automation frameworks (Appium, Espresso, and XCUITest)
Access to a team of experts to help you achieve your testing objectives
Enterprise-level support and customer success
REAL DEVICE ACCESS API
Stop Choosing Between Control and Scale.
The Real Device Access API delivers the raw power of a local device lab without the hardware maintenance.
Real Device Access API, the industry’s first modern programmable mobile cloud, provides developers deep, device-level control to accelerate AI-driven workflows. This framework-agnostic approach bypasses the constraints of standard testing frameworks to unlock custom use cases and AI-ready workflows—while eliminating the drain of in-house testing.
With low-latency device access at cloud-scale security, deep observability, and persistent session models, teams can reclaim innovation time and build the future-proof foundation that modern mobile engineering needs.
Remove Session Limitations: Use Session Persistence to "own" the device state for up to 24 hours. Install your app once and run complex soak tests or security audits without wasting time on cleaning cycles.
Debug Live, Fix Faster: Tunnel directly into a failing device. Step through code, inspect the file system, and check logs in real-time, with no more guessing from video replays.
Run Custom Frameworks: Break free from rigid framework constraints. Whether it’s a specialized gaming driver, a proprietary test engine, or a custom AI agent, if it runs on a local phone, it runs on your private cloud.
Turn your private cloud into a programmable device lab and graduate from limited automation to limitless infrastructure. This add-on is available with Real Device Cloud private devices.
